Nvidia Network drivers in Suse 8.2
 

Hello,

For a view weeks some of you gave me some very appreciated help by installing network drivers for Nvidia in RH9.

I have an asus a7n8x-x mobo with nvidia lan on board.

I installed a second distro. I am a curious man and I want to try a view distro's .

But there is again the trouble with the Nvidia driver.

Nvidia has a driver but in its docs I find the following about SUSE

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NOTE: SuSE INSTALLATIONS

Upgrading the SuSE Kernel:

If you are using the SuSE Linux distribution, note that the binary RPM for SuSE only supports SuSE versions using the upgraded kernel. This note contains directions from SuSE on upgrading to the new kernel for SuSE versions 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3:

Get the upgraded kernel from one of the following sites (depending on SuSE distribution):

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.1)
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.2)
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.3)

For update instructions, see SuSE's SBD article, located at

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ftpkernel.html

Alternative SuSE Installations:

The following instructions should be used before proceeding with a source RPM or tar file installation. You will need to use one of these installation methods if you want to install nForce drivers without upgrading your kernel. Please note that these installation methods won't work for SuSE 7.1 or 7.2.

Install with YaST(2) the following d (development) series packages

* make
* gcc
* binutils
* glibc-devel
* kernel-source

Use the following commands to set up your development environment

example% cd <directory with the rpm file>
example% su
Password: ******
example# pushd /usr/src/linux
example# make cloneconfig
example# make dep
example# popd

You can now proceed with the tar file or source RPM installation steps below, omitting the steps to become root.
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Since I have Suse 8.2 I ask myself if I can use the RPM installation as I used it with RH9.
The site of Suse is neither a great help. because there is only a story about upgrading the kernel.

Can anyone give me an answer how I have to install?

Thanks a lot.

CB

I'm not sure I understand your question. What rpm are you trying to install?

Or are you asking how to upgrade the kernel in 8.2 so you can compile in support for the nforce(2?) chipset?

The instruction is the following:

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Binary RPM Installation
The binary installation procedure involves downloading the binary RPM file appropriate to your distribution and installing it. If you are using the SuSE distribution, see NOTE: SuSE INSTALLATIONS, above.

Become root and install using rpm:


example% cd <directory with the rpm file>example% suPassword: ******example# rpm -i nforce{package name}-1.0-1.rpm
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The rpm for Suse is the next :

SuSE 8.2 NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse82.i586.rpm
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But there is also a story about SUSE that says :

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NOTE: SuSE INSTALLATIONS

Upgrading the SuSE Kernel:
If you are using the SuSE Linux distribution, note that the binary RPM for SuSE only supports SuSE versions using the upgraded kernel. This note contains directions from SuSE on upgrading to the new kernel for SuSE versions 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3:

Get the upgraded kernel from one of the following sites (depending on SuSE distribution):

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.1)ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.2)ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd.../kernel/2.4.16 (for SuSE 7.3)
For update instructions, see SuSE's SBD article, located at

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ftpkernel.html

Alternative SuSE Installations:
The following instructions should be used before proceeding with a source RPM or tar file installation. You will need to use one of these installation methods if you want to install nForce drivers without upgrading your kernel. Please note that these installation methods won't work for SuSE 7.1 or 7.2.

Install with YaST(2) the following d (development) series packages

make
gcc
binutils
glibc-devel
kernel-source
Use the following commands to set up your development environment


example% cd <directory with the rpm file>example% suPassword: ******example# pushd /usr/src/linuxexample# make cloneconfigexample# make depexample# popd
You can now proceed with the tar file or source RPM installation steps below, omitting the steps to become root.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This is a bit confusing. To my opinion SUSE 8.2 supports RPM.
This story from NVIDIA is not up to date (I ran into some problems with RH9, that information was also not up to date)

So before I try to meddle with a good working OS I want to know if I am doing the right things.

To my opinion I can simply go and follow the Binary RPM installation.

The question is am I correct in this assumption.

CB

Those instructions do sound kind of old. Also, they are preparing the kernel for source code not binaries. If you'll notice this line:

"The following instructions should be used before proceeding with a source RPM or tar file installation."

The rpm you listed, SuSE 8.2 NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse82.i586.rpm, is a binary, not a source rpm or tar file. You can install it with YaST or from the command line.

Thanks 'll give it a try.

CB :)